The State vs. the Dead Body of Fanny Payton

Date: 
June 20, 1870

Deceased

Fanny Payton
Description: 
colored woman, free from birth
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Age Descriptor: 
74
Slave Status: 
Free
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Heart
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that the deceased came to her death in her bed in the room she usually slept and from disease of the heart

Coroner

Coroner: 
John Wilson
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at residence of Harry Gallard[?]
County: 
Anderson County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
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